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osama bin laden performs for the cameras. it's an explosive beginning to his first and only press conference. witnessed by pakistani journalist ismail khan. >> all of a sudden they were shooting and then boom, boom, rocket-propelled grenades and firing. and for once i thought we have come under attack or something. >> reporter: may 26th, 1998. this was bin laden's videotaped call for war against america. in this press conference bin laden goes public with al qaeda's plans to attack the united states. bin laden had turned a corner with his declaration of war. no longer would he just attack the u.s. military or u.s. leaders. now he was saying that the american people would be legitimate targets. >> my name is hamid mir. and i met osama bin laden first time in tora bora mountains. >> reporter: journalist hamid mir is writing an authorized biography of bin laden. he interviewed the al qaeda leader three times during the 1990s. how did he justify the killing of innocent americans? >> he said that, yes, the killing of innocent chil
osama bin laden performs for the cameras. it's an explosive beginning to his first and only press conference. witnessed by pakistani journalist ismail khan. >> all of a sudden they were shooting and then boom, boom, rocket-propelled grenades and firing. and for once i thought we have come under attack or something. >> reporter: may 26th, 1998. this was bin laden's videotaped call for war against america. in this press conference bin laden goes public with al qaeda's plans to attack...
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. >>> osama bin laden, the man who unleashed so much devastation here osama bin laden. a man who unleashed so much devastation here at ground zero and around the world. the hunt for bin laden of course ended when he was shot and killed in pakistan. a violent end to a violent man. a man of enormous contradictions. to understand how bin laden went from the son of saudi privilege to the world's most wanted terrorist, we want to revisit our award-winning documentary "in the footsteps of bin laden." here's christiane amanpour. >>> he was a young gentleman, very gentle, very polite. >> he said if i see you again, i'll kill you. >> he is the most popular muslim leader in the islamic world today. >> translator: his voice. when you hear it, it makes you want to stand up right away to join him, to fight. >> what he's good at is killing civilians. ♪ >> osama bin laden was the world's most wanted terrorist. he haunted americans and millions of others around the world. i'm christiane amanpour in peshawar, pakistan, the birthplace of bin laden's terrorist organization, al qaeda. no
. >>> osama bin laden, the man who unleashed so much devastation here osama bin laden. a man who unleashed so much devastation here at ground zero and around the world. the hunt for bin laden of course ended when he was shot and killed in pakistan. a violent end to a violent man. a man of enormous contradictions. to understand how bin laden went from the son of saudi privilege to the world's most wanted terrorist, we want to revisit our award-winning documentary "in the footsteps...
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how would they even find osama bin laden in this compound? >> reporter: the training complete, the plan prepared. finally it's go time! >> for every s.e.a.l. on the ground there was 50 to 100 to 200 people that were supporting the mission in some capacity. and you are afternooned. you board the helicopter, your adrenaline is rushing and also the sequence of events. you have rehearsed it. it is not your first rodeo. >> reporter: for s.e.a.l. team 6 total focus. howard wadson remembers. >> i would say a prayer for me and my teammates and the next thing in my mind is paying attention to right now. double checking everything, have i gone over this in my mind enough and then going out, taking my place on that bird and going systemically through that same mental checklist until the job is over. >> reporter: on their minds, the mission, but on their shoulders a president's legacy. and a nation's grief. st: does ? sfx: buck's blustery exhale. host: could switching to geico 15% or more on car insurance? host: does it take two to tango? ♪ ♪ well, y
how would they even find osama bin laden in this compound? >> reporter: the training complete, the plan prepared. finally it's go time! >> for every s.e.a.l. on the ground there was 50 to 100 to 200 people that were supporting the mission in some capacity. and you are afternooned. you board the helicopter, your adrenaline is rushing and also the sequence of events. you have rehearsed it. it is not your first rodeo. >> reporter: for s.e.a.l. team 6 total focus. howard wadson...
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osama bin laden. the architect of 9/11 had eluded the world's most powerful nation for more than a decade. >> the trail was quite cold. >> reporter: former cia director michael hayden recalls the early misfires. >> most of what he had looked more like elvis sightings than intelligence. >> reporter: the trail caught fire last august when u.s. intelligence zeroed in on this compound. >> an unusual compound. unusual in its security, in its size and location. >> reporter: its location, just over a mile from pakistan's premier military academy, north of islamabad. the compound was discovered after tracking down bin laden's trusted courier. >> one of my sources said to me, you know, one of the reasons it was so interesting to us is we knew bin laden was in the construction business. and this was well constructed. >> reporter: more clues begin to emerge from behind the 18-foot-high walls. >> what they began to notice is the occupant burned their trash. they couldn't determine that there was any internet acce
osama bin laden. the architect of 9/11 had eluded the world's most powerful nation for more than a decade. >> the trail was quite cold. >> reporter: former cia director michael hayden recalls the early misfires. >> most of what he had looked more like elvis sightings than intelligence. >> reporter: the trail caught fire last august when u.s. intelligence zeroed in on this compound. >> an unusual compound. unusual in its security, in its size and location. >>...
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just call him osama bin married, at least five times. when one of the stars of "despris housewives" was on "the view," maybe they should give a part two, one of bin laden's wife. talk about a desperate housewives. >> the real housewives of osama bin laden. [ bleep ]. >> followed by, keeping up with t . >> reporter: when it comes to mocking osama bin laden's latest videos, we discovered great comedians think alike. >> and he appears to be watching videos of himself on tv. wait a minute, that's me. >> can i see that shot of me watching this footage over the weekend? son of a [ bleep ]. >> reporter: and everyone jumped on the news that bin laden was dyeing his beard black. >> he was using just for maniacs. >> and three boxes of the just for mad men. >> reporter: there's even a website called what's osama bin watching? let's you put in the address of any video so osama is watching, say, the keyboard cat or even the royal wedding. >> to join together this man and this woman. >> oh, he's crying. oh. >> reporter: there's something satisfying ab
just call him osama bin married, at least five times. when one of the stars of "despris housewives" was on "the view," maybe they should give a part two, one of bin laden's wife. talk about a desperate housewives. >> the real housewives of osama bin laden. [ bleep ]. >> followed by, keeping up with t . >> reporter: when it comes to mocking osama bin laden's latest videos, we discovered great comedians think alike. >> and he appears to be watching...
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brother and osama bin laden's son. they blasted through gates on the stair ways. since a team of seals turned on the floor. >> they're see this tall individual with a beard. >> he sensed that new yorker magazine with a nuanced detail of the raid. he bays his reporting on sourced conversations with special operations officers who had intimate knowledge of the ring. he did not speak directly with seals who teared out the mission. the identities are classified. in had been reported by cnn. when the seals rushed down the hall and into the room, two of the wives placed themselves between the seals and bin laden. on account of how the first seal had to academy approximate when he encountered the youngest wife. >> he was yelling and begin beginning to approach the first seal. they are wearing suicide. he shoots them all in the calf and they all go on the other woman. he turned himself back to the seals. >> he holds them. >> so that if they explode and blow up, he will soak up the impact and they go on behind him. >> he is hel
brother and osama bin laden's son. they blasted through gates on the stair ways. since a team of seals turned on the floor. >> they're see this tall individual with a beard. >> he sensed that new yorker magazine with a nuanced detail of the raid. he bays his reporting on sourced conversations with special operations officers who had intimate knowledge of the ring. he did not speak directly with seals who teared out the mission. the identities are classified. in had been reported by...
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he was the leader of al-qaeda since osama bin laden. although they have been quiet lately, al qaeda is unpacking the goals. >> i know some of the details. >> it was fairly complicated, good work to everyone. >> you heard about this over the weekend is at right >> i had a source that informed me of this a number of hours ago. i was told to stay quiet. >> that does remain quiet. you served in afghanistan. what are the challenges of conducting a strike like this. after the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan nearly a year ago. >> there's a lot of questions the millis terry knows more about this. did the taliban know that he was there. that could leave to further cooperation. very difficult. when you have troops in place, they have their sources. you can get real-time information. we don't have that. certainly a got the targets. makes it more difficult. don't get real-time information. how do you confirm something. obviously, we can still do that, in some cases. it today is a great day to celebrate that. i think it's a moment to keep in mind.
he was the leader of al-qaeda since osama bin laden. although they have been quiet lately, al qaeda is unpacking the goals. >> i know some of the details. >> it was fairly complicated, good work to everyone. >> you heard about this over the weekend is at right >> i had a source that informed me of this a number of hours ago. i was told to stay quiet. >> that does remain quiet. you served in afghanistan. what are the challenges of conducting a strike like this....
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so this happening on the one year death anniversary of osama bin laden. we have john king standing by in washington with a little bit more on the news here. john, clear this up for me. we know that he has just arrived in afghanistan. what more do we know and the purpose of the trip here? >> reporter: the white house is obviously being careful about the tick tock of the president's movements because of security concerns, but we can report that the president has landed safely in afghanistan, he flu there year night from the the united states. obviously he is there on the one year anniversary of the raid across the border in pakistan that led to the death of osama bin laden. we also know the president will address the nation tonight in the 7:00 hour, 7:30 p.m., he will address the nation from afghanistan. and we know while there he is scheduled to meet with the afghan president, hamid karzai and the two ledder leaders ared to sign a extstrategic agreemen between the two countries. this would create an alliance between the two countries essentially saying abo
so this happening on the one year death anniversary of osama bin laden. we have john king standing by in washington with a little bit more on the news here. john, clear this up for me. we know that he has just arrived in afghanistan. what more do we know and the purpose of the trip here? >> reporter: the white house is obviously being careful about the tick tock of the president's movements because of security concerns, but we can report that the president has landed safely in...
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president obama is playing the osama bin laden card. here is his new campaign ad. >> he took the harder and the more honorable path and the one that produced, in my opinion, the best result. >> the ad suggests mitt romney wouldn't have given the order to kill bin laden. it quotes romney's criticism of candidate obama's promise to strike inside pakistan to get bin laden. senator john mccain call it pathetic as did the romney campaign. >> took something that was a unifying event for all americans and an event that governor romney congratulated him and the military and the intelligence analysts and our government for completing the mission in terms of killing osama bin laden and he has managed to turn it into a divisive partisan political attack. >> if this all sounds familiar, you are right on the money. in 2008, candidate obama complained when hillary clinton used a picture of bin laden to question obama's credentials. this time, obama's campaign says it's different, when it comes to national security, it's fair game to compare how the t
president obama is playing the osama bin laden card. here is his new campaign ad. >> he took the harder and the more honorable path and the one that produced, in my opinion, the best result. >> the ad suggests mitt romney wouldn't have given the order to kill bin laden. it quotes romney's criticism of candidate obama's promise to strike inside pakistan to get bin laden. senator john mccain call it pathetic as did the romney campaign. >> took something that was a unifying event...
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to take out osama bin laden. what's wrong with that? >> nothing. but that's not the controversial part of the ad. the controversial part is what would mitt romney do? it's controversial because one of the cliches we hear is foreign policy is to stop at the water's edge. the football said we shouldn't gloat about it running campaign ads gloating about it. saying the other guy isn't tough enough to do what i did. and i think that's reprehensible? >> you do. >> i have no problem about him killing osama bin laden. >> what about mccain who said shame on president obama by turning it into a cheap political attack ad. the same president who criticized hillary clinton for invoking bin laden to score points. how do you feel about the speech when he used the capture of saddam hussein? he said george bush took the fight to our enemies and away from our shores destroying the regime. president obama made the difficult decision to liberate iraq. we need a leader with experience to make the tough decisions and the resolve to stick with it. what is the difference?
to take out osama bin laden. what's wrong with that? >> nothing. but that's not the controversial part of the ad. the controversial part is what would mitt romney do? it's controversial because one of the cliches we hear is foreign policy is to stop at the water's edge. the football said we shouldn't gloat about it running campaign ads gloating about it. saying the other guy isn't tough enough to do what i did. and i think that's reprehensible? >> you do. >> i have no problem...
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did they lead to osama bin laden? >> the black site that i had visited was probably the grimmest place that i have ever been. >> and then, tracking terror. how do you track a lone wolf. >> there's a whole bunch of things that are technically possible. but do you really want your government doing that? >> and it's not just a movie. two of the actual women in the hunt for bin laden take us inside the cia. >> when you think of oo 7, you don't think of jane bond. you think of james bond. >> and, last, i'll have my own thoughts on confronting terror today. >> defining the enemy and understanding the threat. what does al qaeda look like today? it's been called al qaeda 2.0. loosely made up of affiliates and hangs on. who are these smaller organizations? should we be concerned about them? and what about the lone terrorists living in the west quietly plotting another boston bombing. cnn's national security analyst oversaw the first television interview with osama bin laden in 1997. his book, "man hunt" is the subject of a new
did they lead to osama bin laden? >> the black site that i had visited was probably the grimmest place that i have ever been. >> and then, tracking terror. how do you track a lone wolf. >> there's a whole bunch of things that are technically possible. but do you really want your government doing that? >> and it's not just a movie. two of the actual women in the hunt for bin laden take us inside the cia. >> when you think of oo 7, you don't think of jane bond. you...
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but equally at the same time, we now have osama bin laden is no longer alive. al qaeda is in disarray. if you look at what president obama has achieved that half of the al qaeda leadership has been wiped out in recent years because of the efforts of the americans, so it was an historic time for the americans. >> given all we now know, was it a mistake to into iraq? >> i think you have to distinguish between the rightness of the case and of course the u.n. and the whole world supported the rightness of the case. and then the follow-through. and i think the follow-through became very difficult, because in the modern world, you can't just have a just war. you've got to have a just peace. and if you cannot plan through a reconstruction that leaves a country in a position where it can build for the future, quickly, then you've got to question what was going on. so i think when all of these inquiries are finished, people will conclude that the justness of the case against saddam hussein was proven by husbais unwillingness to comply with the united nations. >> it's be
but equally at the same time, we now have osama bin laden is no longer alive. al qaeda is in disarray. if you look at what president obama has achieved that half of the al qaeda leadership has been wiped out in recent years because of the efforts of the americans, so it was an historic time for the americans. >> given all we now know, was it a mistake to into iraq? >> i think you have to distinguish between the rightness of the case and of course the u.n. and the whole world...
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and osama bin laden retreated back into the room. eventually they would make their way up to that third floor where they were confronted with bin laden, with his wives, with some of the children right there in the room, the s.e.a.l.s having to push some of those wives and children out of the way to get a clear shot at first bin laden's chest and then his head. carol? >> i know there are many viewers out there saying i'd rather love to see that video. is there any chance some of it would ever be, you know, shown to the public? >> well, you never want to say never, but a lot of times what this video is used for is for the teams to go back and sort of recap the mission. a lot of times the mission planners will look at it and say, you know, what did we do right? what do we do wrong? what could we have done better? you know, especially it does have such huge significance because of the target was osama bin laden, but really, they use these cameras and they use these recording devices mostly so that the team can really look at what went on
and osama bin laden retreated back into the room. eventually they would make their way up to that third floor where they were confronted with bin laden, with his wives, with some of the children right there in the room, the s.e.a.l.s having to push some of those wives and children out of the way to get a clear shot at first bin laden's chest and then his head. carol? >> i know there are many viewers out there saying i'd rather love to see that video. is there any chance some of it would...
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who killed osama bin laden. it was an error and we apologize. "360" begins right now. >> thank you for joining us. tonight, a "360" exclusive. the former navy s.e.a.l. who says he killed osama bin laden. he talks about why he broke a vow of silence and possibly the law and about the mission that he expected would end in a pakistani prison or in death. the murdered family and the family friend who told us nobody had any reason to hurt that family. well, tonight, authorities say he had a reason and he killed them all. he's now in custody. plus, 43 students missing in mexico, thousands demanding answers and action. tonight, we do have some answers. horrifying answers about what happened to those kids and how police allegedly delivered the victims straight to the killers. we begin with perhaps the last person in the wor y
who killed osama bin laden. it was an error and we apologize. "360" begins right now. >> thank you for joining us. tonight, a "360" exclusive. the former navy s.e.a.l. who says he killed osama bin laden. he talks about why he broke a vow of silence and possibly the law and about the mission that he expected would end in a pakistani prison or in death. the murdered family and the family friend who told us nobody had any reason to hurt that family. well, tonight,...
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that's where he met osama bin laden, and they found a common cause. he talked about it a decade later. >> we are working presently -- since more than 10 years [inaudible] >> al-zawahiri was many places in the early 1990s. even it is believed, visiting california on a false passport. his group attacked egyptian embassies and try to kill egyptian politicians. eventually, al-zawahiri folded his group into al-qaeda. >> he pretty much flip the group ended a strategic policy of with al-qaeda's agenda was, and suddenly bin laden gave his authority and listens to it, but al-zawahiri called the shots. >> al-zawahiri was that bin laden side when he declared war on america may of 1990. 8 weeks later they launched an attack on u.s. embassies in africa, and then gloated after they escaped the u.s. cruise missile attack launched in retaliation. after the 9/11 attacks, al-zawahiri began to become the voice of al-qaeda, taunting the u.s.. >> american people, you must ask yourselves, why all this hate against america? >> after the u.s. invasion of afghanistan, bin lad
that's where he met osama bin laden, and they found a common cause. he talked about it a decade later. >> we are working presently -- since more than 10 years [inaudible] >> al-zawahiri was many places in the early 1990s. even it is believed, visiting california on a false passport. his group attacked egyptian embassies and try to kill egyptian politicians. eventually, al-zawahiri folded his group into al-qaeda. >> he pretty much flip the group ended a strategic policy of with...
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osama bin laden was very big, but osama bin laden became big with the world trade center. this is a man who built a whole, as he would like to call it, a country, a caliphate, and was trying to do it again. >> director, the white house also took a photo of president trump following developments of the raid, okay, just as a photo shows barack obama watching osama bin laden's raid, a photo that you're in. what's your reaction to the killing of al baghdadi and to the president's handling of it? >> well, first, i mean, it is a good thing. it's a great accomplishment, and it's another testament to the professionalism of our special operations forces, and i'm proud to say the absolutely crucial contributions i'm sure intelligence made to this. so from that standpoint, great accomplishment. i really sort of loathe to get into the chest-beating about which terrorist we took down was the bigger. >> right. >> but i would have to argue that i believe osama bin laden had much more impact simply because isis was not responsible for the deaths of thousands of people in this country, whi
osama bin laden was very big, but osama bin laden became big with the world trade center. this is a man who built a whole, as he would like to call it, a country, a caliphate, and was trying to do it again. >> director, the white house also took a photo of president trump following developments of the raid, okay, just as a photo shows barack obama watching osama bin laden's raid, a photo that you're in. what's your reaction to the killing of al baghdadi and to the president's handling of...
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does he think he could have found osama bin laden sooner? we're going to take it up with the former chairman of the house intelligence committee. and the blue wave did not stretch all across america. one-on-one tonight with stacey abrams, who lost the race to be georgia's governor. but she says she's not done fighting. there's something that has to be changed. she says the politics in her state are rotten and rigged. ready to make the case? let's get after it. >>> georgia governor's race is finally over. stacey abrams did not win, but she did launch herself into the national political spotlight. and while she admits that she's not going to be the next governor, she refuses to concede, but she concedes the election but not the bigger point, which is she believes that this election exposed issues that will lead to another fight, taking on the system itself. here she is. >> ms. abrams, thank you very much for taking the opportunity. >> thank you for having me. >> so first tell us what do you believe the lesson of your election to be? >> that if
does he think he could have found osama bin laden sooner? we're going to take it up with the former chairman of the house intelligence committee. and the blue wave did not stretch all across america. one-on-one tonight with stacey abrams, who lost the race to be georgia's governor. but she says she's not done fighting. there's something that has to be changed. she says the politics in her state are rotten and rigged. ready to make the case? let's get after it. >>> georgia governor's...
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i heard him say "osama bin laden," and i looked at osama bin laden and i thought, how in the world did i get here from butte, montana? >> that's so crazy. >> yeah. >> you've been criticized for coming forward and telling your story. i want to play some sound from the former secretary of defense, leon panetta, talking about, specifically about a colleague of yours, mark owen who wrote the book "no easy day," but it could be applied to you as well. take a listen. >> people who are part of that operation, who commit themselves to the promise that they will not reveal the sensitive operations and not publish anything without bringing it through the pentagon so that we can ensure that it doesn't reveal sensitive information, when they fail to do that, we have got to make sure that they stand by the promise they made to this country. i cannot as secretary send a signal to s.e.a.l.s who conduct those operations, oh, you can conduct these operations and then go out and write a book about it or sell your story to "the new york times." how the hell can we run sensitive operations here that go af
i heard him say "osama bin laden," and i looked at osama bin laden and i thought, how in the world did i get here from butte, montana? >> that's so crazy. >> yeah. >> you've been criticized for coming forward and telling your story. i want to play some sound from the former secretary of defense, leon panetta, talking about, specifically about a colleague of yours, mark owen who wrote the book "no easy day," but it could be applied to you as well. take a...
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s.e.a.l.s killed osama bin laden. journalist seymour hirsh charging among other things that pakistan knew all along where osama bin laden was hidden for years. the white house calls the accusations baseless. >> the obama white house is not the only one to observe that the story is riddled with inaccuracies and outright falsehoods. >> now nbc news is corroborating, though at least part of hirsh's stories, saying the pakistani government did know where bin laden was hiding all along. so who is telling the truth? tom foreman is "outfront." >> osama! >> reporter: the killing of osama bin laden is portrayed in the movie "zero dark thirty as a super daring strike echoing widespread government and media accounts. but this new article says it's a lie. bin laden was a sick aging prisoner of the pakistanis, served up to american troops. author seymour hirsh -- >> there is no question this was an assassination from the get-go despite what the white house says. >> reporter: among contentions, the white house says bin laden was fo
s.e.a.l.s killed osama bin laden. journalist seymour hirsh charging among other things that pakistan knew all along where osama bin laden was hidden for years. the white house calls the accusations baseless. >> the obama white house is not the only one to observe that the story is riddled with inaccuracies and outright falsehoods. >> now nbc news is corroborating, though at least part of hirsh's stories, saying the pakistani government did know where bin laden was hiding all along....
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and really we are seeing it played through with the death of osama bin laden. how great was this terrorist threat? i think bush, people will look back and say president bush, george w. bush, did make the right decision to recognize that this was a major threat to the -- civilization of the world that it had to be taken on. the next set of decisions are controversial. i don't think you can doubt the first decision that when you have the -- bonds in new york, planes going into the -- buildings, and -- you have america trying to recover from that, it -- had to be the right decision to say we are going to take this terrorist threat on. i think president bush will be remembered actually for taking that terrorist threat on. now, in afghanistan, he obviously did the right thing because he kicked al qaeda out of afghanistan. perhaps we should have spent more time following that through and -- equally at the same time we now have osama bin laden is no longer alive. al qaeda is in disarray. if you look at what president obama's achieved, half al qaeda leadership wiped ou
and really we are seeing it played through with the death of osama bin laden. how great was this terrorist threat? i think bush, people will look back and say president bush, george w. bush, did make the right decision to recognize that this was a major threat to the -- civilization of the world that it had to be taken on. the next set of decisions are controversial. i don't think you can doubt the first decision that when you have the -- bonds in new york, planes going into the -- buildings,...
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who said he fired shot that killed osama bin laden. who is this man and did he actually take down osama bin laden. here is what we are learning tonight about him and his account. >> the former navy s.e.a.l.'s name was robert o'neal. he was a career seal and now a motivational speaker. >> here is his version of what happened in the early hours of may 2nd, 2011. with no moon, under the cover of darkness, they entered bin laden's house and relying on night vision goggles and instinct. and let me show you an animation says happened. he told the washington post he fired the kill shot saying bin laden had his hand on a woman pushing her forward. but other seals tell a different story about what happened in the compound. they tell our peter bergen another s.e.a.l. fired the shot, coming from the area of the stairs that led to the floor where he was looking out of the door of his bedroom. they say the s.e.a.l. who took the first shot at osama bin laden won't ever speak out and two other s.e.a.l.s shot him before he died. >> and two different v
who said he fired shot that killed osama bin laden. who is this man and did he actually take down osama bin laden. here is what we are learning tonight about him and his account. >> the former navy s.e.a.l.'s name was robert o'neal. he was a career seal and now a motivational speaker. >> here is his version of what happened in the early hours of may 2nd, 2011. with no moon, under the cover of darkness, they entered bin laden's house and relying on night vision goggles and instinct....
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did coercive technique lead to osama bin laden? once again, our intelligence experts weigh in. >> the site that i visited was probably the grimmest blase i have ever been. ran the counterterrorism center from 2004 to 2006. >> it's a business when you are, again, for understandable reasons, sequestering people who you believe have information, actionable information, which if you're able to acquire it, will save lives. >> in your experience, looking at all the information you got, does it work? is the use of coercive interrogation, which some people call torture, a useful way to get information? >> for -- those group of hardened terrorists against whom, you know, the normal sort of measures that you might encounter in a chicago precinct, for instance, simply did not work. simply were unavailing. we acquired a lot of very important intelligence. >> leon panetta was in charge the day osama bin laden was killed. >> i often get criticized for saying this but it was the fact we got information, even though you may not like the approach t
did coercive technique lead to osama bin laden? once again, our intelligence experts weigh in. >> the site that i visited was probably the grimmest blase i have ever been. ran the counterterrorism center from 2004 to 2006. >> it's a business when you are, again, for understandable reasons, sequestering people who you believe have information, actionable information, which if you're able to acquire it, will save lives. >> in your experience, looking at all the information you...
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did they lead to osama bin laden? are our current interrogation tactics working? >> the site i visited was probably the grimmest place i've ever been. >> then, tracking terror. how do intelligence officials target a lone wolf? >> there's a whole bunch of things, certainly technically possible but do you really want your government doing that? >> shut up. >> and it's not just a movie. two of the actual women in the hunt for bin laden take us inside the cia. >> when you think of 007, you know, you don't think of jane bond, you think of james bond. >>> and, last, my own thoughts on confronting terror today. >>> defining the enemy and understanding the threat. what does al qaeda look like today? it's been called al qaeda 2.0. a more decentralized organization than the one that attacked us on september 11th, 2001. loosely made up of affiliates and hangers on like al qaeda and and the islamic -- allocate ka and the peninsula. al shabaab, but who are these smaller organizations? should we be concerned about them here at home? and what about the lone terrorist living in t
did they lead to osama bin laden? are our current interrogation tactics working? >> the site i visited was probably the grimmest place i've ever been. >> then, tracking terror. how do intelligence officials target a lone wolf? >> there's a whole bunch of things, certainly technically possible but do you really want your government doing that? >> shut up. >> and it's not just a movie. two of the actual women in the hunt for bin laden take us inside the cia. >>...
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he said i want to re-energize the hunt for osama bin laden. i want you to make this your top priority. i want to get reports every 30 days. >> august 2010, leon panetta comes back to the president with some information, correct? >> that's correct. in the summer of 2010, the cia led by leon panetta came to us and indicated they had ed that was interesting to them at that point, that led them to believe there was a high value person of interest at abad -- abbottabad, facemask stan. -- pakistan. >> when did it become clear that it was osama bin laden? >> even at that point it was a wholly circumstantial case. there was not direct evidence you could present to the president at that point saying we guarantee you, we have direct evidence that osama bin laden is at this compound. >> you excluded the secretary of state, the secondary of defense. tell us about that. >> to have in the first instance the analytical people, really the seoul team working on this. >> the cia. >> then it moved when we made decisions about going operational, that is the fed t
he said i want to re-energize the hunt for osama bin laden. i want you to make this your top priority. i want to get reports every 30 days. >> august 2010, leon panetta comes back to the president with some information, correct? >> that's correct. in the summer of 2010, the cia led by leon panetta came to us and indicated they had ed that was interesting to them at that point, that led them to believe there was a high value person of interest at abad -- abbottabad, facemask stan. --...
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we always reserve the right to go anywhere to get osama bin laden. i said that very clearly in the response that i made. but that i thought and many people believed as i did that it was naive on the part of the president at that time, the candidate, to say he would go in into pakistan. it was a, if you will, fragile and flammable time in pakistan and i thought it was a mistake of him as a canned ddidate to announce that he would go this. rather to say rewe reserve the right to where we feel appropriate and to track osama bin laden anywhere he can be found. i'm sorry, i can't quite hear you. [ inaudible question ] i think it's totally appropriate for the president to express to the american people the view that he has, that he had an important role in taking out osama bin laden. i think politicizing it and trying to draw a distinction between himself and myself was an inappropriate use of the very important event that brought america together. which was elimination of osama bin laden. [ inaudible question ] the mayor and i had a very nice chat this mo
we always reserve the right to go anywhere to get osama bin laden. i said that very clearly in the response that i made. but that i thought and many people believed as i did that it was naive on the part of the president at that time, the candidate, to say he would go in into pakistan. it was a, if you will, fragile and flammable time in pakistan and i thought it was a mistake of him as a canned ddidate to announce that he would go this. rather to say rewe reserve the right to where we feel...
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and he said, i want to reenergize the hunt for osama bin laden. i want to make this your top priority. i want to get reports every 30 days. >> august 2010, leon panetta comes back to the president with some information. correct? >> that's correct. in the summer of 2010, the cia live and led by leon panetta came to us and indicated that they had evidence that was interesting to them at that point that led them to believe that there was a high value person of interest in a compound there. >> at what point did it become clear that there was a high likelihood that the person at that compound was osama bin laden? >> well, you say high likelihood, fareed, this is why it was a tough decision. even at the last principal's meeting, which was on april 28th, 2011, where the principal sat with the president and gave them their view whether to go or not, even at that point, it was a wholly circumstantial case. there was not direct evidence that you could present to the president at that point saying we guarantee you, we have direct evidence that osama bin lade
and he said, i want to reenergize the hunt for osama bin laden. i want to make this your top priority. i want to get reports every 30 days. >> august 2010, leon panetta comes back to the president with some information. correct? >> that's correct. in the summer of 2010, the cia live and led by leon panetta came to us and indicated that they had evidence that was interesting to them at that point that led them to believe that there was a high value person of interest in a compound...
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bin laden, that osama bin laden has been killed, that they are convinced they have the body of osama bin laden. >> osama bin laden, the biggest villain of the 21st century in pakistan. thank you, sir, good to see you. it's an anniversary and a lot of people are glad about this anniversa anniversary, let's say that. he's a contributing general to the intelligence center. one year after osama's death, are we safer because of it? >> we are safer, absolutely, don. we've heard a lot of analytics that it's not time for a high five, and nobody took a breather and said this is wonderful and did victory laps. clearly what is required is vigilance and persistence, and this is an ongoing struggle that's not going to go away in the immediate time frame. it's very much a persistent operation that has to take place in multiple locations around the globe, and our intelligence community with a lot of partners and a lot of locations are doing a very good job of making sure we're identifying those pockets of radicalism as they appear, identifying the leaders and being able to target them quite effecti
bin laden, that osama bin laden has been killed, that they are convinced they have the body of osama bin laden. >> osama bin laden, the biggest villain of the 21st century in pakistan. thank you, sir, good to see you. it's an anniversary and a lot of people are glad about this anniversa anniversary, let's say that. he's a contributing general to the intelligence center. one year after osama's death, are we safer because of it? >> we are safer, absolutely, don. we've heard a lot of...
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forces did try to take out osama bin laden in the late 1990s. the president neglects to mention that 9/11 happened under president george w. bush and they put the focus back on capturing osama bin laden. i should point out this is just not outraging democrats but outraging republicans. i spoke to a key g.o.p. congressional aid who said this is pathetic coming from the president. as you mentioned, not even accurate as u.s. intelligence was in charge of finding bin laden. it was the navy sea.e.a.l.s who got them. >> it is different than what he was saying when bin laden was killed. >> there is a statement for everything. the president when he was then citizen trump, then businesman trump told our colleague over at the "new york times" back in 2011 after the bin laden raid was successful and took out osama bin laden he gave a statement saying i want to congratulate president obama and u.s. forces on a job well done. that is a pretty big departure from what he had been saying. >> a job well done overseen by admiral mccraven. >> thank you so much. >>
forces did try to take out osama bin laden in the late 1990s. the president neglects to mention that 9/11 happened under president george w. bush and they put the focus back on capturing osama bin laden. i should point out this is just not outraging democrats but outraging republicans. i spoke to a key g.o.p. congressional aid who said this is pathetic coming from the president. as you mentioned, not even accurate as u.s. intelligence was in charge of finding bin laden. it was the navy...
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osama bin laden's secrets, newly released letters give us a glimpse inside the mind of america's most wanted terrorist. a cnn exclusive. files hidden in pornographic videos detailing future attacks. a very candid interview with billionaire warren buffett. he sets the record straight about his health, who to blame when it comes to unemployment and who should be in the white house. i'm don lemon, the news you need to know right now. . >>> they stand accused of plotting the dets of nearly 3,000 americans. khalid sheikh mohammed and four other suspects facing arraignment today in guantanamo bay. chris lawrence is there for us. it seems like these men are doing everything they can just to drag all of this out further. >> reporter: yeah, don. and the arraignment was just about over and there was another outburst in the courtroom, just literally a few minutes ago. we were watching the court proceedings. everything seemed to be wrapping up, and then the judge sort of turned to one of the detainees and said no, no, no. and the judge said put your shirt back on and sit down or you will be escor
osama bin laden's secrets, newly released letters give us a glimpse inside the mind of america's most wanted terrorist. a cnn exclusive. files hidden in pornographic videos detailing future attacks. a very candid interview with billionaire warren buffett. he sets the record straight about his health, who to blame when it comes to unemployment and who should be in the white house. i'm don lemon, the news you need to know right now. . >>> they stand accused of plotting the dets of nearly...
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we were undertaking a unilateral action in pakistan to go after osama bin laden. all those risks were on the table and had to be considered by the president and the principals that made their recommendation. i will tell you this in line with your question. there was a lot of history present in the room. secretary gates was national security during desert one. i was an aide to carter during desert one. it was clearly on people's minds. also what was in the room, it's interesting, was one of the aspects that came out of desert one and that was a formation of a unified special operations forces command. the very troops, the forces here that would carry out this operation that had become such a unique asset of the united states. >> the president made one sdix, informed, it seems, to me, by that history. he asked for two backup helicopters. >> he asked for enough assets that the united states could get in and out of on its own of the abbottabad compound. >> now take us to that moment or a series of meetings where we now know that vice president biden voiced reservation
we were undertaking a unilateral action in pakistan to go after osama bin laden. all those risks were on the table and had to be considered by the president and the principals that made their recommendation. i will tell you this in line with your question. there was a lot of history present in the room. secretary gates was national security during desert one. i was an aide to carter during desert one. it was clearly on people's minds. also what was in the room, it's interesting, was one of the...
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the man who led them, osama bin laden, was from saudi arabia. isis and other terrorist groups killing americans have been filled with recruits from saudi arabia. how did one of america's closest allies become the home of its most bitter enemies? to understand, we have to go back almost 300 years to the 1700s. two men formed an alliance in the arabian desert, a cleric known as mohamed -- and a warrior, the patriarch of the saudi royal family. he and his followers were the isis of their time. preaching strict adherence to the koran on pain of death. their puritan cal faith and that creed governed saudi arabia. >> they executed them. >> it starts from a principal that i can determine if another muslim is a good muslim. it f they are not, i can proclaim them the most drastic penalties, including death. >> it was only a minor sect of islam for much of its history. the muslim world was shaped far more by large diverse societies like egypt. >> then saudi arabia struck oil. >> 200,000 barrels a day. >> with mountains of cash, the kingdom eclipsed other
the man who led them, osama bin laden, was from saudi arabia. isis and other terrorist groups killing americans have been filled with recruits from saudi arabia. how did one of america's closest allies become the home of its most bitter enemies? to understand, we have to go back almost 300 years to the 1700s. two men formed an alliance in the arabian desert, a cleric known as mohamed -- and a warrior, the patriarch of the saudi royal family. he and his followers were the isis of their time....
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osama bin laden's son-in-law captured and in u.s. custody and in just hours, abu ghaith will be in new york. more on how we caught him and the controversy surrounding this court appearance. susan candiotti is here. >> he managed to stay beyond the reach of u.s. authorities all these years just like his famous father in law. now that has finally ended. now the question is how will he be prosecuted and where. some people are challenging that. krr thceci rodgerkr krr. >> reporter: this photo but abu ghaith right up there with osama bin laden and others. he was out front as a spokesman for the terror organization, appearing in videos and making ominous statements. quote, we have the right to kill 4 million americans with chemical and biological weapons. abu ghaith is believed to have been in osama bin laden's fine astand in tora bora in 2001 before escaping into pakistan. he lived in iran since 2002, mostly under house arrest and is said to have arrived in the turkish capital ankara, early last month. he checked into a luxury hotel and w
osama bin laden's son-in-law captured and in u.s. custody and in just hours, abu ghaith will be in new york. more on how we caught him and the controversy surrounding this court appearance. susan candiotti is here. >> he managed to stay beyond the reach of u.s. authorities all these years just like his famous father in law. now that has finally ended. now the question is how will he be prosecuted and where. some people are challenging that. krr thceci rodgerkr krr. >> reporter: this...
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of the osama bin laden unit. he says there is much more to that story. >>> and pot politics. should everybody just get stoned? we have a jam packed program. let's get started. we begin this morning in the middle east at the center of the turmoil this morning. israeli soldier still missing after a firefight that shattered the cease-fire inn tepded to last through the weekend. israel assumes hadar goldin was captured and president obama is pointing the finger at hamas. hamas says it doesn't have goldin, but lost contact with fighters in the area where the soldier was reportedly taken. meantime, congress has approved another $225 million for israel's iron dome defense system. i have mark with me now. mark, i have watched many appearances of you on cnn. it is important to underscore the american opinion on the ongoing israeli efforts. as an american father of four, i worry that regardless of how it all began, the net effect is to create yet another generation of palestinians growing up to hate israel and to hate the
of the osama bin laden unit. he says there is much more to that story. >>> and pot politics. should everybody just get stoned? we have a jam packed program. let's get started. we begin this morning in the middle east at the center of the turmoil this morning. israeli soldier still missing after a firefight that shattered the cease-fire inn tepded to last through the weekend. israel assumes hadar goldin was captured and president obama is pointing the finger at hamas. hamas says it...
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they brushed him off. >> osama bin laden was furious. he thought that this is the unholiest thing anybody can do, bringing the infidels to the arabian peninsula. >> in 1996, with american troops still in the kingdom, osama bin laden issued a fatwa. terrorizing you while you are carrying arms in our land is a moral obligation, he declared to the americans. >> outrage, shock, and heavy loss of life -- >> thus began the road to 9/11. >> terrorist bombs explode minutes apart -- >> bombings at u.s. embassies in east africa. >> who did it and why? >> killed hundreds and wounded over 5,000. the "uss cole" attack in yemen. >> it was a despicable and cowardly act. >> nearly sunk a destroyer, killing 17. >> both towers -- >> in 2001 -- >> -- appear to have collapsed -- >> bin laden's greatest triumph, nearly 3,000 americans obliterated. saudi arabia had created a monster. >> powerful bombs -- >> after 9/11 -- >> -- ripped through apartment buildings -- >> the monster turned against its homeland. >> the focus once again is squarely on al qaeda. >>
they brushed him off. >> osama bin laden was furious. he thought that this is the unholiest thing anybody can do, bringing the infidels to the arabian peninsula. >> in 1996, with american troops still in the kingdom, osama bin laden issued a fatwa. terrorizing you while you are carrying arms in our land is a moral obligation, he declared to the americans. >> outrage, shock, and heavy loss of life -- >> thus began the road to 9/11. >> terrorist bombs explode minutes...
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when you come into the white house, has the trail for osama bin ladin gone cold? >> when we came into office at the beginning of 2009 the trail had gone cold. we really hadn't had a good case as to his whereabouts since he was in tora bora in 2001. >> so the president at that point tells leon panetta, get bin ladin. >> in the spring of 009, the president asked to see me, ram emalyou'll and leon panetta. he said, i want to reenergize the hunt for osama bin ladin, i want this to be your top priority. i want reports every 30 days. >> august 2010, panetta comes back with information. correct? >> that's correct. in the summer of 2010 the cia led by leon panetta said they had evidence that led them to believe there was a high value person of interest at abbottabad, pakistan, in a compound there. >> at what point did it become clear there was a high likelihood that the person at that compound was osama bin ladin. >> you say high likelihood, and that's why this was a tough decision. even at the last principles meeting, on april 28th, 2011, where the principles sat with th
when you come into the white house, has the trail for osama bin ladin gone cold? >> when we came into office at the beginning of 2009 the trail had gone cold. we really hadn't had a good case as to his whereabouts since he was in tora bora in 2001. >> so the president at that point tells leon panetta, get bin ladin. >> in the spring of 009, the president asked to see me, ram emalyou'll and leon panetta. he said, i want to reenergize the hunt for osama bin ladin, i want this to...
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bin laden's killing. >> let's not make the capture or killing of osama bin laden a politically divisive event. there are plenty of differences between president obama and myself, but let's not make up ones based on he might not have done this. it's disappointing and it's unfortunate and i think, it's taking an event that really brought america together that was the culmination of a lot of people and enormous sacrifice and some people who very put put their lives on the line. let's not use this as a political football. >> today romney observes the anniversary of osama bin laden's death in new york city with rudy giuliani at a fire station that lost 11 firefighters on 9/11. so, could the obama camp say that romney is politicizing bin laden? ron? >> no, i don't think so. i think romney is doing the right thing. on 9/11 the politicians go to firehouses to celebrate the fallen. you know, it's a right move to attack president obama at the firehouse i think would be a problem. hut he had a right to respond to president obama. it was distasteful to include him in that osama bin laden ad and, yo
bin laden's killing. >> let's not make the capture or killing of osama bin laden a politically divisive event. there are plenty of differences between president obama and myself, but let's not make up ones based on he might not have done this. it's disappointing and it's unfortunate and i think, it's taking an event that really brought america together that was the culmination of a lot of people and enormous sacrifice and some people who very put put their lives on the line. let's not use...